The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
Gall Hamilton's idea Of Their Trials In
This WorkadAH World.

When woman has to concern HERSELF
with the material necessities of life She
descends from higher plane thar
man. She is often forced to descendl
She must often stoop to conquer. HUI
mainly has made immense strides since
it was first heard of, but it has a great
way yet to 60 before it reaches the re-!
pose of perfect harmony and crowns q
finished world. The angel in man has
fatally bruised the head of the brute I'M
man, but the brute still bites at the
heel of the angel. As between the am
gel and the brute 1 think our country
leads the world. The unquestionable
claim of woman, the Difference due to
woman, the sacredness of her physical
inferiority and of her spiritual SUPER
iority, are not only commanding inI
stinct but clearly-defined idea in Amers
lean manhood. A thousand violations
on the part of both men and women do
not annihilate this fact Thousands Of
women earning their own living, thout
sands of wives working harder than
self-supporting maidens, thousands Of
both doing their work with or withouq
protest, nay, even with rejoicing, do
not affect the fact. Even America, adj
vanced as it is, has not reached the
ideal life. 1t is much that we have
reached a point where we can catch
glimpses of the Promised Land.
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women who are wearing Themselves
out in doing work that should be dond
by servants, or to q world in which
large part of the household work moi
only, but of outside work as well, ID
done by women, that ultimately and
ideally they ought not to work at alb
But in any comparison of their effective
ness with that of men, it certainly
should never be forgotten, it should
always be kept we'll in sight, that how
ever unsuccessful their efforts be, it Id
in a field which they are not made ia
cultivate. 1t is better that they culti1
vate that field than that they be idle In
their own, or that they starye in thei1
neighbors'. Many women are NOT
sufficiently developed to discern their
own peculiar work. Without discern
ing it they do great deal of it instinc-
lively in the lower fields where they
are forced to live, but from which they
will one day be graduated. But always
it should be he held up on all sides "a
the light that woman's real work is on
character, her surest weapon il
, influence. She can buy and SELL
, and cook and sew, and wash
and iron, because she ID
., still of the earth earthly; but she car
not do it so we'll as a man because she
is not so much of an earth creature al
he. As matter of fact, even in thi
! favored country, where men pay II
women, as women, not as ladies, o.
= bellies, or beauties, an eXtraordinar,
8 Difference, the mass of wives work a
= hard as the mass of husbands. Thei
! spiritual superiority is signifed chief,
= In this-that the women work for love
the men for money. The spiritual ad
=. vance made by man is seen chiefly il
- this, that so much of the money b
earns goes to the ministry of refine
: ment, education, establishment, to tn
wife and children whom he loves. Blu
=. the woman sees no money for her toll
! Her sufficient, her ample reward is il
a husband, content, happy, growing Il
grace; in children, bounding to era
= cious maturity. The unmarried woman
2 works for necessity, for love of her de
u pendent ones, for love of som
beautiful or beneficent profession, 70
- sweet mercy and charity to the ig
y norant, for horror of dependence upo
those on whom she has no claim-se
dom for business, ambition or materi;
. accumulation. The woman who fai
in her business is not necessarily til
woman who sinks beneath the toll (
the kitchen, or who pricks her life oil
with the needle, or who can not max
" both ends meet in dry goods establish
g. ment or a milliner's shop. Such a w
9. man fails in mans business, not in h,
w own. The woman who makes re
70 failure, failure in her own business,
IN the unloved woman, the ungraciol
as woman, the grasping, the selfish, Il
s. repressive, the unsympathizing, the ce
g serious, the untruthful, the woman WI
IN is a centre of discomfort, a source
in anxiety, an object of avoidance, instet
ID of being that gentle, consoling, consi
as crate, motherly magnet which dra'
an unto itself all human want, and We
r. and bliss, and aspiration.-M Y Wor
ss
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